Editing is the process of assembling shots together to create a coherent narrative for any production. Shots are organized through transitions and edited based on duration to manipulate emotions and understanding. Continuity ensures smooth transitions between shots through matching actions or events, while rhythm is created by the pace of the cuts. Different transitions aid the narrative and audience experience.

1. Editing
A Basic Introduction

2. What is it?
• Editing forms the post-production part of
any production process.
• It is necessary in assembling shots together
to create a coherent whole production.
• It is the process where sound and images
are cut together to create a narrative.

3. Creating the narrative
• Shots are assembled together by transitions
which are carefully selected in order to
maximise continuity and aid audience
understanding.
• Shots vary in length (duration) and when
edited together have a rhythm which can
manipulate audience emotions and reading
of a situation.

4. So what is continuity, Rhythm
and a Transition?• You tell me………
• Use the links and media studies reference books to
complete the table provided. You only have 30
minutes to do this. we will then feed it back as a
class before viewing an extract of a TV drama
where you will identify a variety of different
transitions and discuss what you think their effect
is.
• http://www.waikato.ac.nz/film/handbook/glossary.html#editing
• http://www.springhurst.org/cinemagic/glossary_terms.htm
#Match%20cut
• http://195.12.22.187/sfeu_dotnet/uploads/documents/Higher
%20Media%20Studies%20Glossary.pdf

5. Screening
• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?
v=jPO2y19tKCE&feature=related
• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?
v=TvbiC634Pb0&feature=related
Watch the following screenings: trailer for Rome and a clip
from the same TV drama. Try and identify the different
editing components used and suggest why you think they
have been used in a power paragraph.

6. Screening
• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?
v=jPO2y19tKCE&feature=related
• http://uk.youtube.com/watch?
v=TvbiC634Pb0&feature=related
Watch the following screenings: trailer for Rome and a clip
from the same TV drama. Try and identify the different
editing components used and suggest why you think they
have been used in a power paragraph.